The Issue: The prioritization of felons over disabled vets in the awarding of licenses to run marijuana stores.
It’s a slap in the face to the men and women who serve this country that Gov. Hochul is giving preference to convicted drug felons when it comes to marijuana licenses (“Fuming at Kat’s licenses for felons,” April 11).
Where is the outrage?
We’re rewarding the drug dealers and felons, and not the men and women who serve this country. What a disgrace.
Bill McCreary
Levittown
Nobody should be shocked by Gov. Hochul ignoring our disabled veterans when it comes to getting the right to operate legal cannabis shops.
I guess it’s not enough to have given up a leg or an arm fighting for our country.
The governor only cares about where her votes come from, and she assumed it wasn’t from this small base, but rather the minorities that she panders to.
Oh, yes, and she now has commercials on TV that say she is allegedly “tough” on crime.
This after ignoring the rampant crime in our city for so long to pander to her progressive pals.
She is a total disgrace.
Saul Mishaan
Brooklyn
I agree 100% with Seth Barron’s probing article on the disastrous cannabis implementation program (“Deadly perils of NY legalization,” April 11).
This mess is a classic example of getting what you asked for.
From the very beginning, the progressive geniuses in charge of legalization promoted a business model based on racial equity and victimization, giving licensing priority to individuals with a history of criminal convictions for marijuana.
It is not surprising that disabled veterans are being ignored, since they’re not a group embraced by the “woke” cult running our local and state government.
Meanwhile, illegal pot shops are opening all over the city, creating an unsafe community presence without the benefit of garnering tax dollars that were supposed to go to the state.
To quote The Post’s Cindy Adams, “Only in New York, kids.”
Anthony Scro
Whitestone
One look at the photos on pages 8 and 9 of Tuesday’s Post should give New Yorkers a pretty good insight into what many of the legal cannabis shops will look like when they open.
No matter what the state law is, they will stay open as late as they want to, sell to whomever they want regardless of age and become a hangout for the dregs of our society.
Gov. Hochul and the legislators in Albany who voted to allow legalized pot shops in New York City have done so for one reason only — to collect taxes.
They just don’t care what criminal element might frequent these establishments as long as the money comes in.
Dick Mills
Bardonia
The Issue: Professor Jeffrey Lax’s column on the exit of Jewish leaders from CUNY.
Well, at least the anti-Semitic policy of CUNY is undisguised in efforts to eliminate anything resembling Jewishness (“Anti-Semitism Now Runs Show at CUNY,” Jeffrey Lax, PostOpinion, April 7).
But where are the Jewish leaders, who also promote critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion?
Why is it so difficult in history for my Jewish brethren to discern friends from enemies? Do the People of the Book require tutoring?
Sam Frazer
Fort Myers, Fla.
As CUNY professor Jeffrey Lax eloquently stated, CUNY under the anti-Semitic “leadership” of Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez, Saly Abd Alla and James Davis has morphed into a perfect recreation of a 1930s German university, in which all Jewish people are evaluated through the hate-filled lens of Joseph Goebbels and his brownshirts.
Richard Sherman
Margate, Fla.
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